DPI-230: Legitimacy and Resistance

Schedule

Day

Time

Location

First Day

9/9

Meet Day

T

1:10 PM -
3:10 PM

T401

Review

Description

This course
examines theories of political legitimacy and of justified dissent
and resistance from the French Wars of Religion in the 16th century
to the Arab Spring today. Readings from the Vindiciae Contra
Tyrannos, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Immanuel Kant, and John Rawls. Prerequisite: one course in ethics,
moral philosophy, political philosophy, or political
theory.